Haven’t heard about IronKey. Was this some hardware wallet? Back then didn’t think they existed. It seems it’s some encrypted usb drive by Kingston.
So just wondering how he only has 2 tries left. Can’t he just clone the usb and keep trying using different PINs until he gets it correct. I know there was a vulnerability with a Trezor or Ledger a few years back that had a vulnerability which could be bypassed if the PIN was forgotten.
How do you clone a usb drive? Isn't preventing from being cloned the main purpose of such drives? If you could simply clone the drive and try as many passwords as you like, then what would be the point to buy something like that, I don't know whether that usb was designed only to hold bitcoin, but I guess it was designed to hold any data safe, so if he tries 2 more times, drive will be formatted completely, but even then there could be some hope for recovering something useful, in time they will find a hack for it.